Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-20

1t Is estimated that the people OF this
country who ego to Europe" during this
summer will leave not less than one hundred
millions of dollars there.
This is world of change. There is now
going on lively competition between certain
leading cities in Alabama for the possession
of a State university for negroes: which is
soon to be founded.
A German has invented steel clad bullet,
somewhat aattened, that will go through two
or three men marching single file. The
battles of the next war will be very interest
ing to students of military affairs.
The Boston school children are to have less
arithmetic hereafter. The report adopted
dispenses with mensuration of prism, sphere,
ETC., equation of payments, metric system,
compound proportion, ETC., restricts frac-
tions, discount, commission and proportion
to small numbers and simple processes, for
bids f'racing" in oral arithmetic, and limits
hours per week in the grammar and higher
grade primary schools, and to two hours in
the third primary grade.
How much longer will the oil supply of
announced in 1882 that 154 900, 900 barrels
of oil had already been raised up to the be-
ginning of that year, and expressed the
opinion that not more than 10000, 900 bar
rels remained to be raised. In this last
estimate he was mistaken, for up to the
beginning of 1885 no fewer than 261 900, 900
barrels had been raised, and in the year 1885
as many as 81, ,043, ,041 barrels (nearly 3,00o,-
900 fewer than in 1884} were obtained. But
Notwithstanding this there are signs that oil
is not going to flow forever.
The charge made by the board of censors
Governor Bodwell is serious one. can act
to regulate the practice Of medicine" was
passed by both branches of the legislature,
signed by the governor, and deposited in the
Office of the secretary of State. And it is
charged that the governor afterward with
drew it, erased his signature, and assumed to
have vetoed it, at the demand of certain
F'timorous politicians" who feared that the
effect of such law would be to repel the
votes of qaacks of various descriptions. The
medical association denounces the governors
act in the most severe terms, and charges
him with distinct violation of his oath of
Office.
The discovery in California of fuel
ssmuch superior to coar' is interesting and
important if true. AS the story goes, in
making a shaft in coal mine three-foot
vein was discovered, and in putting down
some wells a vein twenty-three feet thick
was discovered. The whole valley is proba-
bly, underlaid with it. The new fuel is quite
soft and as easily worked as a clay bank
when in the mine, but gets hard when ex-
posed to the air, and gains in quality by
exposure to the air. 1t resembles slate some
what in appearance, although of somewhat
lighter color. It is clean and not unpleasant
to handle, as it leaves no marks or stains on
the hand, does not slack or crumble in the
air, can be split like mica into very thin
fbres, burns freely, and needs only to be ig-
nited with match-no kindling necessary
smells like burning rubber when being con-
sumed. leaves behind light but jet black
ash, resembling lampblaek in all its proper
ties. A sample was analyzed at San Diego,
and declared to be worth SIS per ton for
making gas.
The Democrats who are grumbling because
they think the President has too honestly
considered s'publie office a public trust''
should be cheered by the facts. Of 2,359
presidential postnasters, Mr.. Cleveland has
appointed 2,000; of 81, 600 fourth-class post
masters, $4,000 have been named by this
administration. There are SO foreign minis